A minor planet in an outer resonance with Uranus
Abstract
We have located archival observations of the centaur 2015 OU194 from 2017 and 2018, which extend its data-arc length from 1.0 to 3.5 years. We show that it is in an outer 3:4 mean motion resonance with Uranus, henceforth referred to as U3/4. The resonance is stable from at least 1000 kyrs in the past till 500 kyrs in the future. We find no mention in the literature of known objects in this resonance, or in any other resonance between the orbits of Uranus and Neptune. Looking for additional candidates, we find that 2013 RG98 also stays in U3/4 for several hundred kyrs around the present epoch. A third candidate, 2014 NX65, is strongly influenced by Neptune.
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